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    • REVIEW. <€ Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame."—Pons.
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      Art . I- —The Literary and Scientific Pursuit * which are encouraged arid enforced in the University of Cambridge , hieflly described and vindicated . By the Kev . Latham Wainewrigbt , A . M . F . A . S . of Emanuel College in that University , and Rector of

      Great-BrickVull , Bucks . OTHING shows more decisively Nthe influence which public opinion is constantly acquiring in this country , than the deference paid to it by those great chartered bodies , whose constitution se £ ms designed to enable them to set it at defiance . It is chiefly this , which has enabled the friends of

      humanity to carry the light of investigation and reform into the worse than inquisitional cells of Bedlam ; it is this which makes the Church of England circulate the Scriptures , and educate the poor , and even submit to hear the

      commutation of tythes made the subject of parliamentary discussion . The French Revolution , of which some persons seem to think that they can never speak in terms too strongly expressive of their abhorrence , has been one great cause of this remarkable characteristic-of the

      jpresent times . The evils which resulted from that tremendous collision between the spirit of reform , and the " morosa morum retentio , " * have left a deep , though unavowed impression upon the minds of those who are interested in the support of existing institutions , and have moderated that high

      and disdainful tone , with which they were accustomed to plead antiquity against reason , and privilege against justice . They remember wxiat was in Prance the consequence of despising those murmurs , which public opinion h * id long uttered against a corrupt hierarchy and a despotic governmentit spoke once again , and heaven and earth were shaken with the voice . The

      horror of reform which wag t ^ he first result 6 t the excesses bfth ^ RevoIution f has in great measure subsided jimpje-* t * ' ¦_ mi V jj . i . i fi i r ft ii ^ li i' itni' } - _ 1 * - ' tin i ' ' ' ' - * - * * * ^ - * ^

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      tuosity of innovation has been diminished on the one hand , and tenacity of abuse on the other ; and the whole effect has been a calm determination in the public mind towards investigation and improvement , which , notwithstanding the failure of some enthusiastic hopes , may still console the patriot and the philanthropist .

      Among the other indications of a change of views , in those who are interested in the preservation of existing establishments , we may reckon those vindications which have appeared within the last few years , of the discipline and studies of our two Universities .

      Placed as these bodies appear to be , " above the fear of a rival and below the confession of a fault / ' * they have evidently begun to feel that the public requires from them some account of the manner in which they discharge the high trust reposed in them , and

      how they repay to their country the endowments , immunities and privileges which she has conferred upon them . Our readers probably , remember the vindication of Oxford by Mr . Coplestone , f occasioned by the animadversions of the Hdinburgh Reviewers , who came just too late with their censures .

      After wasting the time of its students for we know not Tiow many generations , in an absurd and useless course of studies , the University of Oxford had at length condescended " to adapt its pursuits to the altered condition of the world , and to ensure attention to them by a very strict and efficient system of examinations . Cambridge , as being of less ancient establishment , and far inferior in independent revenues , had always been lessbigotted to ' anciertt forms and obsolete doctrines , and had therefore less that required alteration . Yet whoever will compaie the proposals for improvemehts of various kinds , made by Dr . John Jebb , and then

      »»« uj ' ' . m Gibbon ., ; . t } $ fm * re beUeve I . LJ ) . and Provost pf Oriel College . ,

      Review. ≪€ Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame."—Pons.

      REVIEW . < € Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "—Pons .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 404, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/32/